Results tagged “evolution”

We hope you'll forgive us the crazy analogy, but we sort of felt that Animal Collective's show at the House of Blues on Thursday night was a metaphor for evolution. From the primordial ooze of muddled bass to animalistic screeching vocals to, finally, electro-finessed melodies, AC created an evening that reflected our own development over time—good aspects and bad.

Billions of years ago, globs of molecules sat lifeless on an inhospitable version of our future home. How did such molecules come to life? As part of the Crossroads conference last weekend, physicist and futurist Freeman Dyson shared his thoughts on the origin of life on Earth, and the forms it may take elsewhere in the universe.

       

While Bostonist already passed on 200th birthday wishes to Charles Darwin, it didn’t seem quite right to end it there. So we decided to peruse some of the Darwin Day fare offered up by this uniquely scientific city. We think ol’ Chuck would’ve been pleased with the diversity of the events we managed to find. After all, if there is no variety within a population, natural selection can’t really lead to speciation…oh, never mind.

On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. Fifty years later, he published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, a book that was met with immediate popularity and controversy for its well-supported assertion that humans are apes who share a common ancestor with other living things. Despite the controversy, rigorous scientific inquiry supported and refined Darwin's work, and even many theologians accepted the idea as a fact that would be compatible with the idea of a Universe created by God.

Event canceled due to illness.